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The amount of morphine available to the patients on hospice that I have known has made it very clear what the actual intent of those scripts is. Granted, my sa
by Loughla 3mo ago
The amount of morphine available to the patients on hospice that I have known has made it very clear what the actual intent of those scripts is.
Granted, my sample size of 6 isn't great, and 3 were in terrible pain so it made sense for them, but they had ALL the opiates. . . One had liquid injectable morphine in case he couldn't swallow. He had no issues with swallowing and wasn't in pain.
I wanted to ask the doctor if the intent was to allow a calm end, but chickened out.
- DANmode 3mo agoOpen secret. Cowardice of the system, society, that doesn’t allow practitioners to discuss this. Leads to scary grey areas, actually.
- lostlogin 3mo ago> Cowardice of the system, society, that doesn’t allow practitioners to discuss this. This depends on where one lives. Where I am (New Zeland), the arguments getting it into law were pretty grim.
- gopher_space 3mo agoAmazing how frequently people die after they’re turned over right when the family is all together. Amazing and appreciated.
- gammalost 3mo agoI do not know how it is in other countries, but in Sweden hospice is for a calm end. You are dying regardless